- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Lost Too Soon: Learning How to Help Those with Dementia or Other Brain Illness
Living with loved ones who have dementia, Alzheimer’s disease or other brain illness can be a scary time. In honor of National Alzheimer and Brain Awareness Month, Marilyn Sherrill shares her personal experiences to offer hope.
- Supply Chain
A Roadmap to Improving Efficiencies and Removing Costs at Hospital Labs
It is crucial for labs to improve quality, financial performance and processes, and to transition (when necessary) from transactional assets to strategic assets while reducing costs and improving lab performance.
- Pharmacy
2022: The Year of Novel Specialty Drug Approvals
Specialty pharmaceuticals have exploded into the modern healthcare scene, and with one-third of growth stemming from hospital or health system-owned specialty pharmacies, awareness of specialty drug approvals and the pipeline is increasingly important.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Future Hospital or Hospital of the Future? Incorporating Inclusion and Diversity for Greater Health Equity
Whether incorporating non-Western modalities or championing equitable access to facilities and treatments, the future of healthcare isn’t about retrofitting hospitals — it’s about reimagining their capabilities.
- Pharmacy
Semaglutide: Weighing the Pros and Cons for Use in Pediatrics
Between news headlines and social media influencers raving about their weight loss, it appears semaglutide may be the miracle weight loss drug the world’s been waiting for. But should the healthcare community be so eager to adopt its use in pediatrics?
- Data & Analytics
Shifting Healthcare Mindset from “Patient” to “Customer”
To ensure healthcare organizations remain competitive and financially viable, they must begin thinking differently about their growth strategy — grounded in earning customer loyalty.
- Supply Chain
Disasters Are Striking at Increasingly Odd Times: Do You Have What You Need to Weather the Storm?
Natural disasters are more common and affect a larger geography than ever before — and with manmade disasters like acts of terrorism, cybersecurity threats and utility shutdowns also on the rise, “that time of year” could be any time of year.
- Operations & Quality
Healthcare’s Wicked Problems
Ken Kaufman frames some of healthcare’s wicked problems and discusses how they affect various stakeholders.
- Clinical
- Supply Chain
- Operations & Quality
Care at Home Programs Bolster Everything from Cost Savings to Health Equity to Supplier Innovation — All While Boosting Patient Satisfaction
Health systems must consider increased investment in care-at-home initiatives to safely speed discharge out of the hospital setting and to limit avoidable admissions.
- Clinical
- Operations & Quality
Eight Key Elements for Successful Nurse Residency Programs
Dana Garcher offers leading tactics for implementing nursing transition to practice programs, the most effective engagement and retention tools for healthcare’s newest nurses.
- Data & Analytics
Vizient Vulnerability Index™ is a Uniquely Big-Picture Look at Patient Outcomes and the Social Needs That Impact Them
Calculating the increasingly complex equation of ensuring everyone can attain their highest level of health requires an index with robust data integration that allows health inequities to be examined from every angle, says Vizient’s Beth Godsey.
- Data & Analytics
Leveraging Network Integrity to Achieve Customer Loyalty
When looking for the best customer loyalty strategy for healthcare organizations, using physician outreach teams and network optimization tools can bring the most success in improving patient leakage and the bottom line.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Physician Preference Cards: How a Small Card Can Lead to Big Savings in The Operating Room
It is critical that health systems drive new efficiencies to increase revenue and cost savings and that’s especially true for the OR, which represents both the largest revenue driver for health systems and the biggest cost center.
- Supply Chain
Smart Technologies are Changing the Future of Healthcare — Even at Patients’ Bedsides
One such technology that has the potential to revolutionize patient care, particularly at the point of treatment and convalescence, is smart wireless medical beds, which can improve everything from patient comfort and safety to staff availability.
- Supply Chain
- Data & Analytics
The Top 8 Must-Haves for More Effective Analytical Reporting Within Category Management
Though analytical reporting is becoming more automated over time, Excel reporting is nowhere near its sunset. With that in mind, here is a list of necessities to provide clear, concise and consistent results to support effective decision making.
- Pharmacy
Launching Your Own Home Infusion and Ambulatory Infusion Suite? Here’s What to Consider
Steve Kennedy offers five questions about start up and operational considerations healthcare organizations should ask before launching their own home infusion and ambulatory infusion suite.
- Clinical
Patient Transitions: How Can Healthcare Systems Do Better?
Margaret Rudisill offers perspectives from Vizient’s Improvement Collaborative on how to improve patient transitions of care from a hospital to post-acute care.
- Supply Chain
- Clinical
Evaluating the Benefits, Drawbacks of Reusable vs. Single-use Endoscopes
It can be tricky for clinicians and supply chain leaders to determine whether (and in what cases) to select reusable or single-use endoscopes – but looking at the clinical, environmental, financial and operational impacts of each can help.
- Operations & Quality
Is the Traditional Hospital Strategy Aging Out?
All organizations, including America’s hospitals and health systems, need to confront the fact that no strategic plan lasts forever.
- Pharmacy
The Domino Effect: Pharmacy Technician Staffing Challenges
The challenges around hiring and retaining quality pharmacy technicians in the workforce today is a fast-growing issue. And the solution is clear.
- Clinical
Making the Most of Healthcare Performance Improvement Efforts
Shannon Hale offers insights on how healthcare organizations can best improve their performance improvement processes and the care they provide – on a continuous basis.
- Pharmacy
Defining the ‘Special’ in Specialty Pharmacy
Given the incredible amounts of time and money invested in the specialty pharmacy market, it is important for key stakeholders to understand what medications are classified as specialty.
- Supply Chain
The Five Major Benefits of Domestic Sourcing
Discussions around domestic manufacturing of medical supplies have picked up steam in recent years as the COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the risks and challenges of the global supply chain.
- Supply Chain
Purchased Services Represents Ideal Opportunity to Control Costs, Improve Efficiencies
Is your organization sourcing products and services independently or relying on years-old noncompetitive relationships? It might be high time to take a deeper look at your non-labor spend.